This week, for reader question Tuesday, the question couldn’t be simpler. It’s about technical debt, and here’s how it goes: How do you get out of tech debt? I told you it was simple. I’ve talked about technical debt a number of times on this blog. I offered my own definition years ago (in another…
A while back, I wrote a post about remote programming jobs and why you ought to go looking for them. I’m probably the poster-person for remote work these days, given that my work is 100% remote, and that my wife and I take full advantage of that to vagabond. Oh, and I love it and…
Today, for reader question Tuesday, let’s consider the idea of the coding dev manager. In my experience, most companies draw a fairly sharp line between individual contributors (they code) and managers (they don’t). But in startups and Enterprise Silicon Valley companies, you’ll have additional rungs of the corporate pyramid where people still write code. Who…
Having ironed out the day of the week for reader questions last week, I’ll get right to the point here. Today I’m going to talk about how to get clients for a consulting business. This is in response to the following reader question. It’s ideal to reach out to existing contacts, but past that what…
Look at that! It’s Monday and I’m actually doing reader question Monday. Just kidding. Once again, I’m doing reader question Monday on a Tuesday. In fact, I am going to pull the trigger on switching it to Tuesday going forward. My wife and I are experimenting with a 4 day week that would make Tuesday…
